The First Annual Sherwood Ball

The Lavender Tea Room hosted the first annual Sherwood Regency Ball. It's a lovely little venue in the quaint town of Sherwood. Attendees enjoyed delicious food, dancing, visiting with a horse (carriage rides were canceled due to rain), and whist. It was a lovely, genteel evening much enjoyed by all.

A new ORS chapter.

The ORS has set up a new chapter that covers the central Willamette Valley area; which includes Salem, Albany, Eugene and Corvallis. They will have a blogspot page as their home page; and will be connected directly to the ORS main website.

Thea Peck; a contributor to the ORS blogspot page, and also second-in-command to the ORS, is the president of the ORS Central Valley Chapter.

The blogspot page is: http://orscentral.blogspot.com.

An interview with the ORS Founder (me!)

Barbara Wright of Brightjoy Productions has once again provided us with a lovely movie of the ORS... featuring an interview with moi. I'm being as silly as is required of me. :)

A host of new ORS Events!

Hurrah! At last we have some events for you! It's been rough-going for a month or two, but we're starting to get some of our ducks in a row and have some lovely things for you to do for the following months:

March 28, 2009
A Free ECD Workshop
Sunnyside Grange, Happy Valley, Oregon

Brush up on your English Country Dance skills, or learn the basics in this free workshop in the Portland area.
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March 29, 2009
A Jane Austen Afternoon
Albany, Oregon; Sponsored by Elysian Designs

Join the ladies of Elysian Designs in a special cinema viewing of Sense and Sensibility followed by tea.

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April 4, 2009
A Spring Debut Ball
Veterans Memorial Ballroom, Eugene, Oregon

ORS Eugene kicks off the season with the year's first dance. Join us for an evening of dinner, dancing and diversions in the Emerald City.

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May 9, 2009
Un peu de thé et des Beaux-arts.

Heathman Hotel and the Portland Museum, Portland Oregon

Join us for a gourmet tea at the luxurious Heathman Hotel at noon, followed by an exploration of the Portland Museum's Madame de Pompadour Exhibit.

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There is definitely more to come; including a June Dance event, and a picnic at Pittock Mansion again. And we are already working on the details of this year's Winter Ball. :)

Go to http://www.orregency.org/ for details and ticket information for any of the above events. Click 'Events'.

A new movie of the ORS Winter Ball 2008

Barbara Wright of BrightJoy Productions has provided this movie for us. How kind of her! It really gives a nice picture of the whole evening, from the beginning, through dinner ot the end. And lots of special moments showing the lovely venue are also included.

Holy Bonnets Batman!

Yes, it's bonnet time again. This year, the workshop is going to focus on creating a buckram frame for a stovepipe bonnet using Stephanie Johanesen's (ORS founder/President) stovepipe bonnet pattern.

It's going to be held in lovely Welches, Oregon again on February 7.

Details here: http://www.oregonregencysociety.com/events.htm#bonnet